Baslow Edge - Photography Week 25 (2016)

Having learnt over the years not to go unprotected against midges in the Peak District during the summer, I covered up with as much repellent as possible.

Mostly it was successful but one bite on the lip started an allergic reaction that left me looking like I had been thumped. Fortunately there was a bit more of a breeze as the sun dropped which kept the blighters at bay. This allowed me to make a few compositions without any further trauma!

I started by focusing on the partially completed millstones on Baslow Edge. 

This particular stone looks like it has been abandoned in the process of being shaped whilst underneath this is evidence of wedging. Presumably the wedges helped the makers remove the stone from the bedrock:

The composition was repeated a little later in warmer light:

Another stone propped on the edge looks like it has been worked at some point. It might have split in its production maybe?

Some of the rocks below the edge look like they have been quarried from the rock face:

Elsewhere on the edge is a carved stone tough with chiselled letters and numbers. I assume this is an old water or feeding tough for livestock on the moor:

I have often wondered whether this particular pool is natural or man made:

This was the view along Baslow Edge towards Curbar Edge taken shortly after arriving on the edge:

Later, in the other direction was the best light of the evening: